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Thread: Bible theme for a restaurant
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Ariel
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What would a Biblical-themed restaurant be like?
I envisage it as with waiters clad in sackcloth, but glad to have a Job. The Friday menu would, obviously, have tiny portions of loaves and fishes (all different kinds) on small plates on a little conveyor belt.
On other days, there could be the Samson Steak, a 14oz piece of meat with a honey glaze. Dessert could include Eve’s Pudding.
Other suggestions welcome...
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Firenze
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'What's the soup today?'
'Mess of pottage. It always is.'
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Sipech
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Forbidden fruit salad, anyone?
Be prepared for a surprise if you order the bottled water.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Firenze:
'What's the soup today?'
'Mess of pottage. It always is.'
With all the Manna you want.
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Alan Cresswell
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Fresh meat, served from a sheet that descends from the ceiling. Butchery not included in the service.
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DonLogan2
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Two sections; clean and unclean food (not the fight club kind though!)
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Baptist Trainfan
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Quail, cooked in different ways for each day of the year (except Saturdays). Again, served with manna on the side.
Like Ronnie Barker's Rook restaurant, but kosher.
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Gamaliel
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There was a restaurant in Keighley, West Yorkshire, if I remember rightly, that was run by Born-Again Christians and was imaginatively titled, 'The Born-Again Christian Restaurant'.
I don't know whether it's still going. I never went there when I lived 'oop north'.
Is the term 'Born-Again Christian' still in vogue?
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Mudfrog
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Yes, we must be born again.
Why would it go out of fashion?
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Baptist Trainfan
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Originally posted by Gamaliel:
There was a restaurant in Keighley, West Yorkshire, if I remember rightly, that was run by Born-Again Christians and was imaginatively titled, 'The Born-Again Christian Restaurant'.
Were infidels admitted? And, if so, did they receive a discount of they committed their life to Jesus? ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Alan Cresswell
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Were the customers lions, with a menu of born-again Christians?
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Eigon
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There used to be a chippy in North Wales (Rhosllanrechrugog) called Taste And See (that the Lord is good)!
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Baptist Trainfan
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Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
Were the customers lions, with a menu of born-again Christians?
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
You will, of course, remember the restaurant that served the Piece of Cod beyond all Understanding. (Actually in the version I read it wasn't a restaurant but a railway Dining Car - there aren't many of them about these days!)
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Baptist Trainfan
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PS One of the "Pullman Dining" menus for Great Western trains features "Roast Monkfish" ... not Biblical, but will it do?
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Pigwidgeon
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Locusts and wild honey?
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The Midge
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Fast-no-food.
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Alan Cresswell
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The kitchen will be well stocked. One small jar of oil, one small jar of flour, large containers of water, five small barley loaves, two small fish.
They can scrounge bed from the guy next door, even if he's gone to bed.
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Brenda Clough
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I find it difficult to imagine how they would present a bill, and if they did how they would ever collect the money.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
The kitchen will be well stocked. One small jar of oil, one small jar of flour, large containers of water, five small barley loaves, two small fish.
They can scrounge bed from the guy next door, even if he's gone to bed.
The guy next door doesn't have a bed, but he does have a stable.
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Baptist Trainfan
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"The Desert Place Diner" - fish sandwiches are a speciality, served in a basket by the owner's young son.
It's only open in the evenings and diners (who have to suggest on the grass) are requested to pick up their own crumbs afterwards.
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Stercus Tauri
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There must be something that can be done on a Judgment Day theme with an open pizza oven on one side and a well stocked wine rack on the other. I'd offer seating by the oven to our praise band.
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Ariel
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Judgement Day is the tastings evening. You're given a plate of small, mysterious offerings (some of them are burnt) and you try to identify them. You are also handed a tray of small glasses that look as if they contain water, but actually don't. You record all your guesses on a crackly parchment scroll that's usually difficult to keep unrolled.
Each correct guess is greeted by a fanfare then silence for about half an hour, and when you've finally filled in as much of the crackly scroll as you can, and got fed up with the succession of small plates and watery drinks, you are led to a table where you're served a satisfying plate of roast lamb and a glass of good red.
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Baptist Trainfan
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But that would take ages - I hope they've worked out a good deal with a local late-night taxi service (?"Jehu's Chariots").
Thinking of Jehu ... I don't think "The Elijah Barbecue" would be too successful. All the food (and, indeed, the whole restaurant) would get burned to the ground, after which all the customers would be soaked.
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Baptist Trainfan
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
Judgement Day is the tastings evening. You're given a plate of small, mysterious offerings (some of them are burnt) and you try to identify them. You are also handed a tray of small glasses that look as if they contain water, but actually don't. You record all your guesses on a crackly parchment scroll that's usually difficult to keep unrolled.
Each correct guess is greeted by a fanfare then silence for about half an hour, and when you've finally filled in as much of the crackly scroll as you can, and got fed up with the succession of small plates and watery drinks, you are led to a table where you're served a satisfying plate of roast lamb and a glass of good red.
Do you finish by casting the Chef into the oven?
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Schroedinger's cat
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If 12 people turn up, they each have a portion of a Levites concubine.
If you try to run away without paying, they send Jael after you.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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If you don't conform to the dress code, you'll be tossed out into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
If you try to run away without paying, they send Jael after you.
And then you are Jaeled for non-payment.
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balaam
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I saw this and immediately thought of burnt offerings.
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Graven Image
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A fatted calf, served with gape of the vine, but of course no pork.
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Alan Cresswell
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
You're given a plate of small, mysterious offerings (some of them are burnt) and you try to identify them.
A Tapas bar then ...
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balaam
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Originally posted by Graven Image:
A fatted calf, served with gape of the vine, but of course no pork.
If we are going Levitical, no badger either.
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The beef has to be roast by splitting the carcass and putting fire down the middle.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Maximum Occupancy Not To Exceed 144,000
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Piglet
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BYOB - you bring a bottle of water, they turn it into wine.
Now that's my kind of restaurant ... ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Mamacita
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The Isaiah Special: a feast of rich food, a feast of well-matured wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-matured wines strained clear.
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cliffdweller
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Whatever they serve, on the way out after your meal you can stop by the front desk for one of their sacramints.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Today's Special: All-you-can-eat loaves and fish. (Sorry, no carry-out.)
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Pigwidgeon
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If you order fish, or an egg, or bread, that's what you'll be served -- not a snake, a scorpion, or a stone.
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Eutychus
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You have to bring at least a selection of your enemies, so that the (plentiful) food can be served in their presence.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Originally posted by Piglet:
BYOB - you bring a bottle of water, they turn it into wine.
Now that's my kind of restaurant ...
Depends how much they charge for corkage.
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Ricardus
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Is it time to revisit the Cena Cypriani?
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Baptist Trainfan
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I don't know. But if it really was written by the ci-devant Bishop of Carthage, then the restaurant of that name should clearly be serving Lamb Tagine with Couscous ... and, of course, red wine.
Yum - yum: I want to go there NOW! (Oh, forgot, we've got a roast cooking in the oven and it'll be ready in half an hour).
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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"Hello, I'm Mary. I'll be your server tonight." [listens to order] "Let me see if we have that." [calling in to kitchen] "Martha, do we have any . . . ."
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Robert Armin
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Sandy Toksvig said she wanted to open a delicatessen in Galilee. She would call it "Cheeses of Nazareth".
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cliffdweller
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Originally posted by Robert Armin:
Sandy Toksvig said she wanted to open a delicatessen in Galilee. She would call it "Cheeses of Nazareth".
That makes me think of this classic Life of Brian clip
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Pigwidgeon
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I remember a cookbook* from many years ago with one chapter titled "What a Friend We have in Cheeses."
*I think it was Helen Gurley Brown's "Single Girl's Cookbook."
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Call the restaurant "Bitter Herbs."
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Alan Cresswell
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Originally posted by cliffdweller:
quote:
Originally posted by Robert Armin:
Sandy Toksvig said she wanted to open a delicatessen in Galilee. She would call it "Cheeses of Nazareth".
That makes me think of this classic Life of Brian clip
On that theme, I don't suppose rich Imperialistic tidbits wouldn't work in a Biblically themed restaurant.
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Gamaliel
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@Mudfrog, I was thinking of the term or phrase itself, not necessarily what it denotes.
And as you'll be well aware, there are various theological perspectives on the issue of regeneration.
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